The elites of the front camp raised their sharp bayonets. As their commander charged towards the rebels, the Yi people had lost their will to fight. In a blink of an eye, the soldiers of the Nanhai Kingdom tore apart the entire Yi people's front line.
There is no suspense in the battle, and all that is left is escape and pursuit.
Guo Gan led the "Cavalry Division" with the word "Fat" and pounced on the back of the Yi people who fled in panic. Not to be outdone, the musketeers and pirates drew their steel knives and chased after them with a roar.
"Go for it! All your money is in vain!"
Except for Wei Ziqi, who acted as a reserve force and advanced on foot to protect the Chinese army, the rest of the troops gave chase.
The victory made Pang Ning feel very good. He carried a flintlock on his back and a dozen musketeers, riding around on horseback, and from time to time directed the interception and encirclement of nearby troops. Relying on the speed of his horse, Pang Ning tried to catch the "governor" Long Zaitian. But the coconut grove was in chaos, and it was impossible to tell which of the figures running away was the chief.
After chasing him out of the coconut grove for several miles, the fight finally ended. At this time, the entire army has been pursued to the northwest outside the coconut grove, only four or five miles away from Lianzhou. In the coconut grove littered with corpses, the nearly 10,000 Yi troops in Long Zaitian collapsed completely, leaving behind six or seven thousand corpses. Those who were lucky enough to escape probably lost their will to fight.
Pang Ning stayed behind to command a large force, while Lu Ce went straight to Lianzhou with two hundred cavalry without stopping, hoping to capture this important stronghold in one go. Lu Ce didn't want to give Long Zaitian time to return to the city to organize the remaining troops, so as to avoid another siege battle.
The battle was over, and the soldiers regrouped. Their victory with minimal casualties gave them high morale, bragging to each other about their bravery and military exploits. The work of the auxiliary soldiers was more troublesome. They had to clean the battlefield, collect undamaged fortifications and gather the horses abandoned by the Yi people for use by the logistics department.
Even burying those brave elephants.
Outside Pang Ning¡¯s coconut grove, he saw artillerymen counting their war merit levels. The thousand artillerymen held steel knives. Everyone was covered in sweat. Surrounded by an outer circle of Yi people. Talking about something excitedly. I saw Pang Ning riding over. Fuses greeted him happily. "Your Highness, the ground level gained from the pursuit counts as ten taels or twenty taels?"
fine. Those pirates didn't throw away their breastplates in pursuit of silver. Ning cursed. "Nonsense. Of course it's twelve."
Fuses looked at the pile of levels with disappointment. shrugged. Pang Ning began to gather navy soldiers. But he saw a scout riding back from the north. As soon as I saw Pang Ning. The scout shouted loudly, "Your Highness, Lianzhou is unwilling to open the door and surrender. The King of the West and the ** Cavalry Division were attacked by artillery on the city! Your Highness, the King of the South, please quickly mobilize your troops for support."
Pang Ning was stunned and asked. "What? Lianzhou won't surrender?"
The scout replied loudly. "There are three thousand Han soldiers standing on the top of the city. They refuse to open the door."
Pang Ning looked in the direction of Lianzhou and admired those selfish and cowardly worms. Pang Ning seemed to see Chongzhen's seventeenth year. The officials of the previous dynasty in Beijing did not shoot one arrow at a time. The scene of Dorgon being welcomed into Beijing with the beating of gongs and drums. Shaked his head. Pang Ning spat and laughed. "Fu Seth. The artillery formation went to demolish Lianzhou City."
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Those who guarded Lianzhou City for the King of Yunnan were the puppet officials appointed by Sha Dingzhou and the Jin gentry who had not committed any crimes against the Yi army.
Sha Dingzhou treated the Jin gentry with courtesy and protected the interests of the landlords before the state surrendered to Sha Dingzhou. Although it is ruled by a foreign race, it is still ten thousand times better than the banditry of the Nanhai people. The reputation of time traveling was frighteningly bad in the eyes of the big landowner class. The reputation of killing corrupt officials in the fields spread throughout the country.
I heard that the troops coming here are from the South China Sea. No one from the wealthy families or officials in these places is willing to open their doors and offer the city.
That was the confiscation of all wealthy households¡¯ homes. How could those gentry landlords be willing to have their huge family fortunes suddenly wiped out as long as there was still a chance? That is the blood debt of all the previous officials, beheading. As long as there is a chance, how can those officials be willing to submit their heads to the butcher's knife of the Nanhai people?
Along the way, Lu Ce did not have the consciousness to be appeased at all, and he never raised the flag of the Ming Dynasty's deputy general. There is no news network these days. How do the officials and gentry in Lianzhou City know what the "Lu thief who destroyed the family" is doing? No matter what, they refused to let the Nanhai people enter the city, especially the "Lu thief who destroyed the family". Responding to the black Western King's banner were more than twenty general cannons on the city wall.
Long Zaitian¡¯s war elephants and cavalry are countless, with nearly ten thousand elites. They are invincible in the eyes of the Lianzhou Jin gentry. They really don¡¯t believe that Nanhai Kingdom can easily defeat this army. Seeing that Lu Ce had only "left" two hundred cavalry, the Jin gentry in Lianzhou decided not to surrender.
Sha Dingzhou still has nearly 100,000 local soldiers in Nanning Prefecture. It is the general trend of the Yunnan King to sweep across Guangdong and Guangxi, and no one is willing to go against the trend.
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The person lighting the torch stopped and listened carefully to what was going on inside. With a creak, the dark door opened from inside.
When Fuses saw the door suddenly opened, he thought there was a bad guy. He yelled, "Your Highness, be careful!" and pulled Pang Ning behind him. He was so frightened that the soldiers outside the door jumped and dodge, thinking that something fierce was coming from the door. people.
Pang Ning was pulled inexplicably by the Spaniard, and angrily kicked Fuses away. Only then did he see a young man opening the door, and a large number of young ladies and maids kneeling inside. Pang Ning felt that the back of one of the women kneeling on the ground looked very familiar, and couldn't help but take a few more glances. At first glance, he felt that he looked like the same person. His heart tightened suddenly and he frowned subconsciously.
Fuses was kicked away by Pang Ning. He couldn't see the yard from where he was standing. Seeing Pang Ning's uncertain face, he thought something was wrong in the yard and nervously pulled out the knife. Seeing this, the other pirates felt as if they were facing a formidable enemy, and pulled out their steel knives with a roar.
Fu Seth walked up to Pang Ning carefully and took a closer look. He didn't see anything unusual inside the door, so he was stunned again. But in the red lacquer courtyard, a twenty-eight or nine-year-old scholar, dressed in jade-colored silk, stood in front of the door, bowing to the ground. Seeing that the soldiers here suddenly showed their sharpness, the young man hesitated for a moment, then slowly knelt on the ground and shouted, "Young Master Pang, you are fine!"
Pang Ning's heart tightened when he heard this, and he pushed Fuses away, who was whirring, and he belatedly took a step forward. He glanced at the woman behind the scholar again, took a breath, and thought for a long time before asking, "Is it Mr. Xia?"